Estonian film at Ciné Lumière for European Documentary Season

17.11.2009

15 – 21 November
MEMORY, European Documentary Season, EUNIC London project
17 November, 8.30 – Life Stories by Rao Heidmets,
Ciné Lumière, 17 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2DT

Free Estonian beer available from 7:30 pm

The basis of this film is a selection of life stories of Estonians from the period 1920 – 2004.  All events portrayed have actually occurred, the fate of the entire people is reflected in each life story.  A particularly characteristic selection of stories of people is found in this film.  These are memoirs, moments from life.

Our life. Flinders  combines documentary film with animation on the screen.
Director Rao Heidmets in conversation with Allan Sikk after the screening.

In the programme also:

Grandpa and Grandma
Gyveno Senelis Ir Bobute, Lithuania
Grandpa and Grandma is a documentary animation film based on the director's own grandparents life story.  Exiled to Siberia by the Soviets in 1948, they witnessed a brutal period of Lithuanian history, which is retold here through the eyes of a little girl.

PRL De Luxe, Poland
Crazy Mike from Krakow organises unusual tours for tourists from the West. He takes them to the Nowa Huta district in a clapped-out old bus, and visit relics of the past – the Stylowa restaurant, the place where Lenin’s monument used to stand, steelworks and a typical workers’ flat. Along the way he tells the tourists stories about the lure of life in communist Poland and the absurdities of real socialism.

MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.institut-francais.org.uk/memorydoc/